n Image & Text : a Journal for Design - World history of design, Victor Margolin : book review

Abstract

Epic, herculean, encyclopaedic, definitive, ambitious, big, exhaustive, comprehensive, holistic, inclusive, eclectic, busting the Western-centric canon, world scale, definitive, analytical, deeply exploratory, overwhelming and immersive. These are some of the adjectives and descriptors that reviewers have used to describe Victor Margolin's first two of a three-volume tome, World history of design, published in 2015. (The third volume is still under development.)